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J. G. WOLFE-f AUTOMATIC GRAIN METER AND BBGISTER.-

No. 377,843. I Patented Feb-114, 1888.

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, AUTOMATIC GRAINYIMETBR AND REGISTER.

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' 'NITED STATES J. GREGORY WOLFE,

or MELVILLE, IOWA.

AUTOMATIC GRAIN METER" AND REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,843, dated February 14, 1888. Application filed November 2, 1887. Serial No. 254.122. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J GREGORY WOLFE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Melville township, in the county of Audubon and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Grain Meter and Register, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in grain meters and registers bythe use of which thrashing-machines and corn-'shellers can deliver the thrashed or shelled grain automatically measured and registered in wagons or .bags on either side of the machinefand the objects of my improvements are, first, to save r 5 the manual labor necessary to do the work, and, second, to avoid having the grain run into half-bushels by the side of the machine, and thereby be not so liable to get chaff and straw in the cleaned grain. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the elevator and measurer. Fig. 2 is a front view of the measurer and register with the top of the elevator and register open. Fig. 3 is an inside view of the elevator and measurer.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through the thrashing-machine, and is to be run by a belt from another shaft on the machine, and by means of its bevel-pinion E' turns the bevel-wheel F, which turns the bevel-pinion G, and tumbling-rod H with its bevel-pinion I, and bevelpinion J, Fig. 2, with its shaft and beltwheel K. The belt-wheel K, by means of a belt, turns the belt-wheel L, which is attached to the crankshaft M, and rod N to lever O, and bar P to sliding cross-head Q, Fig. 3.

When in operation,- the grain from the thrasher A runs out at the spout a into the elevator'B, which carries it to measurer C. When the measurer O is filled with grain up to the cross-heads Q and B, Fig. 3, the cross-head Q presses the grain against the cross-head R, which is attached to the lever S. The lever S depresses the spring b, which causes the catch T to release the latch U. When thelatch U is released, the weight of the grain causes the bottom of the measurer V, Fig. 1, to open and let the grain drop out. When the bottom .V, Fig. 1, opens, the rod which is connected to it at Y,Fig. 1, and to the registering-lever Z, Fig. 1, operates the pawl a, Fig. 1, and the register 6, Fig. 3. The pawl d, Fig. 1, turns the register-wheel f, Fig. 2, which, when ;it gets once around,

turns the ten-bushel'wheel 9 one notch, and the ten-bushel wheel when it goes around once, turns the hundred-bushel wheel it one notch, as shown.

i, Fig. 1, is a wire, by means of which the dog-j is released from the rack m, when the elevator may be turned to any desired angle.

Z is aspriug which keeps the dog j'in its place.

n is a sacking attachment for use when required... i

The weight W, Fig. 1, attached to the bottom of the measurer, closes up thebottom when empty.

t, Fig. 2, is a sliding board which shuts off the grain from going down in the measurer while the bottom is open, and as the bottom closes it slides up the cut-off board 13 by means of the wire '16, attached to the bottom V, as showmin Fig. 2.

o v are hinges which allow the elevator to be turned to any desired angle.

The measurer and rack m and shaft D are adjustable to either side of the machine.

y 3 Fig.3, are the ends of sliding bars, on which the cross-heads Q and R slide.

z .is agear-rig, to let the shaft D and its pin ion E in or out of gear.

Having thus described myinvention, what I" claim to have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, i s- A combined grain meter and register, in connection with a hinged elevator composed of the shaft D with pinion E, and wheel F with pinion G, and tumbling-rod H with pinions I and J, and belt-wheels K and L, in connection with the crank-shaft Maud rod-Nand .lever O, and bar P, with its cross-head Q, by

is allowed to open for the purpose of letting I Weight IV, and movable rack m, with its dog the grain drop out, and the registering-lever j and spring Z, all constructed, arranged, and

Z, with its operating-rod Y, and ratchet d, operated substantially as above described.-

and registeringwheels f, g, and h, by means J. GREGORY WOLFE. 5 of which the grain is made to register itself, Witnesses:

and the sliding hoard t, with its operating-rod u, and hinged bottom V, with its attached F. E. BRAINARD, H. W. STEARN. 

